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As they complete their spring semester, students in Christina Singer\u2019s Design Research class have published what will be the sixth digital book to emerge from the Department of Art & Art History\u2019s graphic design program since Singer joined the department in 2021. CLT Graphic Design History: A Collective Research Effort, Vol. 6<\/a><\/em> is a delightful presentation of logos, postcards, ads, and more that Singer\u2019s 18 students have collected and analyzed \u2013 visual artifacts of our city\u2019s culture.<\/p>\n

Discovered in the archives at Atkins Library, on current and historic websites, and even along Charlotte\u2019s busy corridors, the graphic materials chosen by the students have also been added to the People\u2019s Graphic Design Archive<\/a> (PGDA), an international crowd-sourced virtual repository for design materials that launched in 2020. Since she began teaching at UNC Charlotte, Singer\u2019s students have contributed nearly 200 design artifacts and descriptions to the PGDA.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe PGDA was founded by graphic design professors and historians to democratize design history,\u201d Singer said. \u201cThere\u2019s a need for expanding the canon, for asking what is the canon of design history?\u201d<\/p>\n

In preparation to choose their three local artifacts, students did a variety of exercises, learning to \u201cinterrogate an artifact,\u201d Singer said, and visited Special Collections at Atkins Library for sessions with an archivist.<\/p>\n

\"students<\/p>\n

Like many of the students, senior graphic design major Hannah Alvarado chose items that had a personal connection. As a four-year-old, Alvarado attended the Charlotte Bilingual Preschool, so she decided to do a comparative study of the school\u2019s original and current logos.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe first logo used very traditional imagery,\u201d she said. \u201cA red school, children focused.\u201d The new branding, she pointed out, has a mosaic pattern like Latin American tiles, and in its abstraction has a broader connotation, reflecting an expansion of the organization\u2019s mission.<\/p>\n

\"two<\/p>\n

Likewise, a postcard image of the 21 South drive-in restaurant on Independence Boulevard \u2013 found in a box of old postcards in Atkins Library \u2013 caught her attention because of its familiarity. The restaurant, established in 1959 and photographed by Diane Davis 30 years later, is still in operation.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would pass by it frequently and I would never stop.\u201d (After doing her research, Alvarado visited 21 South and tried the onion rings. \u201cThey were really good,\u201d she said).<\/p>\n

\"postcard<\/p>\n

Takenvia Jones said she made choices based on \u201cwhat I wanted to represent\u201d \u2013 work by a Black designer, something related to UNC Charlotte, and \u201csomething fun.\u201d Her first two artifacts were from newspapers: The Charlotte Post<\/em>, an African American newspaper founded in 1878, and the Charlotte Observer<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a Black designer, I really wanted to provide representation for myself and others. I think it is important to know design history especially as it pertains to identity because for me, I had not really seen Black graphic designers represented in Charlotte.\u201d<\/p>\n

The material from the Charlotte Observer, a special souvenir pullout section, documented the UNC Charlotte basketball team\u2019s journey to the finals of the National Invitational Tournament in 1976.<\/p>\n

\u201cI chose this because it had a connection to the school, but it also gave me an opportunity to speak on the design of the paper as a whole and speak a little on the history of the school mascot, which I found very interesting,\u201d Jones said.<\/p>\n

\"front<\/p>\n

Alvarado said the class \u201chas changed the way I view graphic design. I\u2019ve learned a lot more about the diverse perspectives of graphic design.\u201d<\/p>\n

She and Jones have both been impressed, they said, by the breadth of what constitutes design and its prevalence in society.<\/p>\n

\u201cLooking at everything that has been documented in the People’s Graphic Design Archive and what my peers have included in the book, graphic design can be anything from a postcard, to a playbill, or a sign to a restaurant, but it can also be a lot more,\u201d said Jones. \u201cGraphic design is seen everywhere and is interconnected with our everyday lives.\u201d<\/p>\n

For that very reason, said Singer, designers have a responsibility to be thoughtful about their work.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe as designers have the privilege of creating culture through what we design.\u201d<\/p>\n

Singer publicly presented findings from her teaching of the Design Research course at Design Incubation Colloquium 10.2: Annual CAA Conference 2024 on February 15, 2024. Access that presentation here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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